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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS* MARCH 3, 1879
THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28
CURB REPORTER
Weather on Thursday: low 30,
high 58 ... . Marvin Williams,
employed with Martin Airplane
factory at Parkville, Md., expects
to arrive home Saturday to be
with his brother, Marion “Pig”
Williams, whc leaves Mondav for
the Navy Reserves. Marvin said
tell all his men friends leaving
for the service that if he did not
get home in time to see them ,for
them to “Keep ’Em Flying” as
he was doing his part to make
’em . . . Correction in Calendar
of Events. The registration day
fcr all men from 20 to and in
cluding 44, will be on Monday,
ain the Calendar. Men any
where in the county can register
at any registration place. Those
here from ether counties and oth
er states don’t have to go home,
but can register here and have
their cards sent to their home
town draft board . . . Harrv E.
Jenkins, deputy collector of in
ternal revenue fcr the State of
North Carolina will be at the
Tryon City Hall on February 24th
and March 3 to assist anyone in
filing state income tax reports.
. . . . This is Boy Scout Week.
Every community in Polk Ccun
ty should have an active Boy
Scout troop. It takes only eight
ambitious boys to start a troop,
together with three interested
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TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1942
COMMUNICATIONS
. Lisbon, Portugal,
December 18, 1941.
Dear Mr. Vining:
I am wondering if you have
received my letter to you from
Madrid, mailed about the begin
ning of this month. will write
you again in hopes that you will
receive it, if the clippers are
willing.
I have just left Spain wonder
ing whether it would have to line
up or not. I don’t think any of
them want another war; but then
it’s net their say. The sight
seeing that interested me most
while there was not of the usual
touristic slant; visiting phoene
cian tombs, Roman ruins, vigi
gothic churches, Arabain villages,
or medieval strongholds. There
were other things'to occupy on’s
attention —the very present past.
There were the ruins of the uni
versitv city just outside Madrid;
an entirely new seat of learning
completely destroyed; but now be
ing slowly rebuilt. There were
the ruins of the Alcazar at Toledo
whose few existing rooms con
tained memorials to the fallen
men and scuvenir s of the seige,
sc vivid and touching that it made (
one re-live the 72 days intern
ment as if one had been an actual
witness.
Hovering, trembling over this
past so near to all the Spaniards,
was the actual present. And what
could have been more interesting
to see manv of the foremost per
sonalities who had so much to do
with its shaping? While in Mad
rid I saw manv of them unfortu
nately not the generalissimo.
Somp lived at our hotel, others
merelv came for a meal and a
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